George R.R. Martin has 'thousands of pages' ready for a 'Game of Thrones' prequel

George R.R. Martin has just suggested another spin-off idea for
"Game of Thrones." This time, it's a prequel.

"I do have thousands of pages of fake history of everything
that led up to 'Game of Thrones,' so there’s a lot
of material there and I’m writing more,” Martin told Deadline backstage at the Emmys on
Sunday.

It actually sounds like a great idea, but when will he ever
get around to finishing the "fake history," let alone organizing
it into a usable timeline for a book or TV show? Even he knows
that his free time is pretty sparse these days.

“At the moment, we still have this show to finish and I
still have two books to finish so that’s all speculation,” Martin
said, even if the speculation came from him.

Martin has had another suggestion for a potential "Thrones"
spin-off, so that TV audiences don't have to go totally off of
their "Thrones" diet.

At that time, he suggested that
"the most natural follow-up would be an adaptation
of my Dunk & Egg stories."

Martin's "Dunk & Egg" series of novellas, of
which there are three so far, takes place in the same world as
"Thrones," but 90 years earlier. The
novellas follow a nomadic knight, Ser Duncan
the Tall, who would become a member of the Kingsguard, and his
squire Egg, who later rises up to be King Aegon V Targaryen
of Westeros.